![]() ![]() But his control of the industry is based on “graft, financial manipulation, and violence as needed,” rather than expertise, so he needs technology from the West to achieve his aims. Putin has chosen to gamble the future of Russia entirely on the success of its oil and gas production. She carefully weaves together connections between oil executives in the U.S. The information in her book is meticulously researched and documented. ![]() Rachel Maddow, known from her news show on MSNBC, is more than a media pundit: she received her undergraduate degree in public policy from Stanford and a doctorate in political science from Oxford University. It demonstrates how this industry fuels politics around the world, and has played a surprising role in attempts by Vladimir Putin to sow discord in the West and control Washington. This is a non-fiction account of insatiable greed on the part of a particular segment of self-serving, uncaring people drunk on money and power, who work directly in, or benefit indirectly from, the oil and gas industry. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Audiobook read by Ian Virly, running time 1 hour, 30 min. The White People was written in 1899, but first published in 1904. The White People was Lovecraft's second-favorite horror story of all time, after Blackwood's The Willows. Fans of supernatural fiction often cite this story as a classic in the genre. The White People is a highly influential horror story that was written in the late 1890s as part of a longer unfinished novel, some sketches from which went into his book Ornaments in Jade. Literary critics see Arthur Machen’s works as a significant part of the late Victorian revival of the gothic novel and the decadent movement of the 1890s, bearing direct comparison to the themes found in contemporary works like Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. A man is given the diary by another man who wishes to demonstrate what the real nature of evil is all about. The novella is presented as a young girl's diary, detailing her increasingly deep delvings into witchcraft, and discovery of ancient magic. Often described as one of the greatest of all horror short stories. The White People is a horror novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. ![]() ![]() Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. ![]() The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. ![]() A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Clever dialogue, well-handled paranormal elements, and an intriguing plot merge with Quick’s lively wit in this thoroughly entertaining romance. And someone he is tracking will go to any length, even murder, to possess an ancient, extraordinary secret that has been lost for centuries-someone who believes that, as the “wife” of Mr. Jones is about to stride, living and breathing, back into her life. Adopting the guise of his respectable widow, she embarks on a new career as a fashionable photographer in London, where her unique ability to “see” beyond her subjects makes her photographs highly prized.īut Venetia’s romantic whim causes unexpected trouble. Venetia Milton’s memories of a romantic night with Gabriel Jones-an alchemist’s descendant-are shattered soon thereafter by news of his death. The New York Times bestselling author of Lie by Moonlight and The Paid Companion takes you on a thrilling adventure filled with the simmering passions of the Victorian age-and the lure of ancient secrets… ![]() “Delightful Victorian romantic suspense with a touch of the paranormal…a quick-paced, fun thriller.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Quite a lot of human beings are not allowed to live, love, or exist without being persecuted here on planet Earth now, I’m pretty sure that it would go without saying that anyone not naturally produced would have similar problems would it come to that.ĪIPT: War Birds seems quite well-timed, especially given San Francisco approved drones to kill suspects last November. Two drones, in love with the other, and how society would react to that notion of two machines finding emotional connection, when we still collectively, as a society, have issues with certain segments of humanity doing the same thing. ![]() Turns out, it meant what I’d thought very literally. Wessel: “Drones In Love” was something that popped into my head one day, unprompted, and War Birds is what happened when I had to figure out what that all meant. ![]() Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!īoth Wessel and Parkhouse spoke with us ahead of the TPB’s release, tackling topics like their interest in drone-related technology, their favorite war stories, and the agelessness of certain stories, among many other tidbits.ĪIPT: Can you unpack the statement, “Drones in love”? ![]() ![]() ![]() Woronov details her life over an inexact period of time–refusing to remember summers or springs or numerical years. In a breathless, claustrophobic, and gripping narrative voice, Woronov exactly renders the junkie’s inertia and fear. ![]() ![]() Her other credits include such non-events as Mortuary Academy and Silent Night, Bloody Night.Īnd write she can. In Swimming Underground, Woronov’s autobiographical account of that time, we learn just exactly how stoned everyone was.Īn on-the-fringe B-actress, Woronov has most famously starred in the Warhol underground film Chelsea Girls and in Paul Bartel’s acclaimed sexual cannibalism frolic Eating Raoul. Rocker Lou Reed and the derelict poets from his Velvet Underground hung out there Warhol was busy making such films as his Screen Test, which involved an unmoving camera staring directly into an unmoving face for upwards of 15 minutes everyone was stoned. ![]() With its walls decorated entirely in silver paper torn from the inside of cigarette wrappers, the Factory–Warhol’s grimy party studio–was the in place to be. In the late 1960s, actress Mary Woronov was hanging out with Andy Warhol’s crowd at the Factory in New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, an unexpected desire stirs where once there was only hate. With a devious alliance made, their scheme begins, bringing Gemma and Elliot into very close quarters. There’s just one hitch-to do so, they’ll have to trick someone into falling in love with the beastly, brooding Elliot. All she has to do is help him break his curse. And if Gemma can use that to her advantage, she might be able to bargain her way to freedom. Plagued by a curse that will soon claim his life, the human-hating King Elliot will do anything to save himself. But when she’s captured by a trickster fae king who threatens to hold her for ransom, she’ll find herself at the top of the gossip column yet again. Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.Īll Gemma Bellefleur wants is to leave her past behind and forget the day scandal broke her heart. ![]() ![]() yeah, Marsha Metcalf.” “What happened to that pastor where the women in his church went wild, like ‘Church Girls Gone Wild’ during one of his Friday night services? Wasn’t that brother Denzelle?” The main characters in this story (and in the forthcoming books in the Pastor’s Aide Club Series) are the secondary characters readers were immensely interested in throughout the original series of Church Folk novels.Įvery time I wrote a new novel, my readers would ask: “Sooooo, what about Denzelle Flowers?” They wanted to know things like “Is Denzelle ever going to settle down with a good woman?” “You know, I always thought he had a thing for. Pastor Needs a Boo is the book behind the books Up at the College and More Church Folk. ![]() I always have a hearty “laugh out loud” moment when I think about how this book came to be. In a behind-the-book essay, Bowen explains why she chose Reverend Flowers to kick things off. ![]() Her latest release, Pastor Needs a Boo, launches a spin-off of that series, the Pastor’s Aide Club, and matches reader favorite Denzelle Flowers-a former FBI agent turned pastor-with the woman who will be the making of him. ![]() ![]() Louis writer Michele Andrea Bowen made a splash in the inspirational fiction world with her Church Folk series, which followed the loves and losses of a tight-knit church community in Durham, North Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the Kurdish language had been recently legalized to be spoken in private, it was still illegal in public, and many Turkish parliamentarians were outraged. In what may be her most famous act, Leyla Zana swore into the Turkish parliament, reciting the necessary words in Turkish, and adding a Kurdish sentence at the end of the oath. In 1991, after she had been freed, Leyla Zana was the first Kurdish woman elected to the Turkish parliament. First Female Kurdish Politician in Turkey It was during this time that she found her political spirit and voice. Zana was not able understand Turkish when she was younger (and was forbidden by law to speak the Kurdish language), however, Leyla Zana learned Turkish with her children while held prisoner. Zana, a single mother of two children, was sentenced and held as a political prisoner for a 16 year jail term. ![]() In 1980, there was a military coup in Turkey, and Leyla Zana was taken prisoner for her affiliation with the government. She was born in 1961, and at 14, she was married to a man 20 years her senior - the mayor of Diyarbakir. Leyla Zana is known for facing extreme adversity in her life. Leyla Zana is a female Kurdish politician and an activist for Women’s and Kurdish rights in the Kurdish Region of Turkey. ![]() ![]() They met in 1944, when Margaret was 14 and he was a married 29-year-old. In reality, Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a Royal Air Force officer, and was a courtier to Princess Margaret's father, King George VI, until the King's death in 1952. We find out that their romance was thwarted by Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton) who forbade Margaret from a relationship with the older man, and in the longest of all grudges, Margaret is still pissed off about it. ![]() ![]() The man, who we’re later introduced to, is Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret’s first love who was first played Ben Miles in season one of the show. Central Press // Getty Images Who is the mystery man? ![]() |